New Releases and More for September 24, 2019
This week, Liberty and Sharifah discuss The Water Dancer, The Dutch House, The Shadow King, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
The World That We Knew: A Novel by Alice Hoffman
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison
The Shadow King: A Novel by Maaza Mengiste
Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger
Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker
What we’re reading:
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Unwilling by Kelly Braffet
More books out this week:
Hudson’s Kill: A Justice Flanagan Thriller by Paddy Hirsch
Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter edited by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith
Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
Violet by Scott Thomas
Rat Rule 79 (Yonder) by Rivka Galchen, Elena Megalos (Illustrator)
Wrapped Up in You: A Heartbreaker Bay Novel by Jill Shalvis
Verify by Joelle Charbonneau
Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn and Paul Murray
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
Inside Out: A Memoir by Demi Moore
No Judgments: A Novel by Meg Cabot
High School by Tegan Quin and Sara Quin
How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills by Seth Grahame-Smith
A Dream So Dark (A Blade So Black) by L.L. McKinney
The Warrior Moon by K. Arsenault Rivera
Grave Importance (A Dr. Greta Helsing Novel) by Vivian Shaw
In Hoffa’s Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth by Jack Goldsmith
New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop by Fatima Bhutto
The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
The Crossed-Out Notebook: A Novel by Nicolás Giacobone, Megan McDowell (translator)
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
Doppelganger by Daša Drndic, S.D. Curtis and Celia Hawkseworth (translators)
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
Emmy in the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido
Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring
Rusty Brown by Chris Ware
Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir) by Jackson Bird
A Fist or a Heart by Kristín Eiríksdóttir and Larissa Kyzer
Sins of the Fathers: A J.P. Beaumont Novel by J. A Jance
Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep by Erin Carlson
Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America by Nefertiti Austi
Slay by Brittney Morris
Breaking and Mending: A memoir of burnout, recovery and the journey to become a doctor (Life Lines) by Joanna Cannon
The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, Book Four) by Rick Riordan
Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution by Tim Smedley
The Braid: A Novel by Laetitia Colombani
The Incompletes by Sergio Chejfec, Heather Cleary (translator)
Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai and Ottilie Mulzet
Family Record (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Patrick Modiano and Mark Polizzotti
I’m From Nowhere by Linsday Lerman
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe by S. James Gates, Cathie Pelletier
How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics by Lauren Duca
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Lobo Antunes, António and Jeff Love
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag: Twenty-First-Century Acts of Self-Definition edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Blood in the Water: A Thriller by Jack Flynn
The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural by Agatha Christie
Invisible as Air by Zoe Fishman
The Fool and Other Moral Tales by Anne Serre, Mark Hutchinson (translator)
The Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
